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According to the official homepage (www.that70sshow.com) that was maintained during the series' official run, Point Place, WI, was located right outside the real town of Green Bay, WI. However, in "That Disco Episode," the town of Kenosha is depicted as being within the immediate vicinity of Point Place, whereas in real life, Kenosha and Green Bay are three hours apart. Further, during the first season of the show, Bob makes mention of Midge attending community college in Kenosha, something she certainly would not do as a resident of Green Bay. Further still, in the second season episode "The Velvet Rope," Chicago is depicted as being close enough to Point Place that Eric, Donna, Hyde, and Fez can drive there, go to a club, and come home all within the course of one night. In reality, Kenosha is 57 miles away from Chicago, whereas Green Bay is nearly 210 miles away, making the scenario of the gang travelling from there to Chicago, going to a club, and coming back all in one night highly unlikely. The most likely answer is that Point Place is in fact a suburb of Kenosha, and that the official homepage was commissioned by FOX and operated by someone not intimately connected with the series, who for whatever reason decided to identify Point Place as being located near Green Bay.

Tina Pinciotti appeared once in the season 1 episode "Eric's Burger Job". Midge also mentioned once about having a daughter in college named Valerie. The creators of the show decided to leave Donna as an only child so Tina (and Valerie) were written off. In the season 2 episode "Vanstock" they make an inside joke at then end of the episode when the soap announcer says "And what ever happened to Midge's daughter Tina? Find out all this and more next week on That 70s Show!"

The actor portraying Leo, Tommy Chong, was arrested for selling water pipes and sent to prison. As soon as Chong got out, he went back to portray his character. Story-wise, Leo left Point Place to go find his wife, whom he absentmindedly abandoned after stopping for gas in Point Place in the 1960s. After leaving, he apparently wandered around the woods for a while, until Eric found him following an aborted road trip. Tommy Chong later expressed his disappointment that the creators' hadn't worked his real-life arrest into the storyline and had the marijuana-loving Leo sent to prison for possession.

There is a slight tounge-in-cheek comment made by Eric moments before Leo's return. He mentions that the only people out on the road would be ex-cons.

After 7 seasons, the actors just felt it was time to move on and do other projects. Their character were written out in season 8 with Eric leaving for Africa and Kelso getting a job in Chicago. Both actors returned in their roles for the final episode of the series "That 70s Finale".

His name is Randy Pearson, and he was brought in by the creators as a tentative replacement for Eric after Topher Grace left the show to film "Spiderman 3." The original idea had been for the actor portraying Randy, Josh Meyers, to take over the role of Eric; the idea proved unpopular and so the creators came up with the idea of Eric's place within the group being taken over by a new, more popular boy.

After Leo placed an ambiguous "Help wanted" sign on the front of Hyde's record store, Randy thought it was a job offer and applied. While Hyde was high, he hired him and Randy proved to be useful at work and full of ideas. Randy went down to the basement and joined the gang in the third episode.

The creators' decision to pair up Randy with Donna, as well as every character's positive reaction to Randy, upset a great number of the shows fans, and the "Randy Episodes" resulted in a massive ratings plunge for the series. As a result, he was essentially written out of the series, and only speaks one line in the final episode before disappearing.

As of Sept. of 2009, there have been no plans to either make a sequel series or spin it off. Odds are that for the forseeable future, the series is dead. At the time it went off the air, the show was waning in popularity, and FOX's initial attempt to spin the series off--"That 80s Show," featuring a character meant to be Eric's cousin--was such a ratings and critical disaster that it was pulled from the airwaves before the first season ended. Furthermore, it is almost unheard of for a network to spinoff a series that has already gone off the air; the precedent is for a series to be spun off while it is still relatively popular, so as to help build an initial fan base using the popularity of the original series as a launcing pad.

At the present, the only hope for fans of the series would be a reunion special, which is quite a good possibility. Due to the youthful focus of the show, all of the principal actors are young enough that a reunion special is still an option for many years to come. Even the adult actors--Kurtwood Smith, Debra Jo Rupp, etc.--are still young enough to appear in a reunion special held years down the road. Reunion specials certainly aren't unheard of, and several popular series have done them many years after ending their initial run.

Actress Laura Prepon took a role in a Canadian film called Karla (as the title character), a blonde.

As reavealed on the cast listind on That 70's show's main page on IMDB.com, it is listed as Reginald. At about 19:30 into Season 7 Episode 18, Kitty calls him Reginald Albert Forman.

1. Hyde's Stripper wife. She took the pics. 2. Kitty. She inadvertantly opened the envolope and got an eyefull. 3. Red. He found them in a drawer, and then hid them in a newspaper. 4. Randy. He found them when they fell out of said paper. 5. Hyde. Randy handed them to him. 6. Leo. He was there, man. 7. Fez's extremely unstable ex girlfriend who found them stashed in a Barry White album (thanks to Leo). 8. Fez. Well... maybe not.